Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-07-22
MINOR NOTES.

the duty on birds mounted for millinery
purposes is % per cent ad valorem, so they
can no longer be entered free as stuffed
birds. This will tend to increased warfare
on American birds, and those who take an
interest in them ought not to allow their
vigilance to slacken Fortunately, how
ever, the use of bird-skin for millinery
purposes has mostly gone out of style.
Senator Colquitt of Georgia said at the
recent national convocation of Woman's
Christian Temperance Unions at Lake Bluff,
ILL.,, that in the twelve Southern states
there are fewer saloons to the population
than in any other dozen states, not except
ing Maine and Kansas Local option has
been adopted in Georgia and Alabama, and
prohibition is a complete and permanent
success.
Buffalo Bill writes to an American friend
concerning his great success in England. 81
have captured this country from the Queen
down, and am doing them to the tune of
$4,000 day
"The Irish Party is one of the seasona-
BILE articles in the August Harper's The
writer, Edward Brown, outlines the course
of Irish influence in Parliament and gives
a brief biography of the most prominent
leaders in the home-rule movement from
the time of Isaac Butt to Parnell and Dav-
lit. Portraits of IA conspicuous members
of the Irish party accompany their histo-
ries.
President Cleveland on Tuesday visited
Fayetteville, n. Y, the scene of his boy
hood, and was given a very enthusiastic re
ception. He is now back in Washington.
1t is claimed on behalf of President Cleve-
land that none of his predecessors ever ap-
proved so many special pension acts as has
he. For instance, during the eight years
of Gen. Grants presidency he signed SO
special pension acts, while President Cleve-
land in two years approved of s36 Again.
of the 1871 employees Of the pension office
at this time, 81 per cent are either Union
veterans or their wives, widows, daughters
or sons More than half of Gen. Black 5
appointments have been veterans or their
near kin. and 10 of the Is pension agents Of
the country are soldiers.
The school question in Georgia has as
sumed a new and curious phase. Trouble
over the schools in the South has usually
come from any attempt on the part of col
ored people TO gain admission TO schools of
white children. In Georgia the situation
is reversed. Atlanta University. an insti-
tuition established for colored youth, is SO
well managed and furnishes a training SO
excellent that certain white youths, mostly
professors sons, have sought to secure the
same advantages. The legislature has been
called upon to cope with this tremendous
question, and a bill has actually been intro
duced making it an indictable offence to ad-
NIT white pupils into colored schools.
For change, there is talk of an expedi-
ton to the South pole. The expedition is
to be an English venture 1t will be or
gained in Australia, some parts of which
continental island reach pretty well into
the austral regions, to start with. Sir AL
len Young will command the expedition.
A two months drouth in the south of Ire
land has done great damage A CORE
spondent writing to an English paper from
| county Kildare says; Il do not think there
has ever been known in Ireland so dry a
season the flowers blaze in the sunshine.
but are short-lived, and their petals look
dry and thirsty. Walking on a lawn is like
walking on an old frayed drab carpet over
an iron floor, and the farmers are in dis
trcss over their half starved cattle and
their thirsty crops"
There are still 10000, 600 acres of gov
eminent land in Dakota open to settlement,
but 1t is being taken up so fast that the
whole will be gone within the next three
years, it is said, and the best of it within
the next year or year and half
Keep the children out of the hot sun
shine Scores of deaths are reported in
our exchanges attributable to useless ex
posture during the heated term.
The exodus to Europe this season is said
to be beyond all precedent.
Among the laws enacted at the last SEES
sion of the New York legislature was one
which provides penalty of fine or impris-
onment, or both, for any one who prints,
utters, publishes, sells, lends, gives away or
shows, or has in his possession with intent
to sell, lend, give away or show, or other
wise offers for sale, loan, gift or distribu-
ton, any book, pamphlet magazine, news
paper, or other printed paper, devoted to
the publication and principally made up of
criminal news, police reports or accounts
of criminal deeds, or pictures, or stories of
deeds Of bloodshed, lust or crime" This is
a good law to have on the statute book, and
wherever it is vigorously enforced the com
munity will be the healthier for it.